diff --git a/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-httpfs-dist.xml b/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-httpfs-dist.xml
index 79bad49122..6468a8ae65 100644
--- a/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-httpfs-dist.xml
+++ b/hadoop-assemblies/src/main/resources/assemblies/hadoop-httpfs-dist.xml
@@ -27,14 +27,6 @@
         <include>*</include>
       </includes>
     </fileSet>
-    <!-- Readme, licenses, etc. -->
-    <fileSet>
-      <directory>${basedir}</directory>
-      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
-      <includes>
-        <include>*.txt</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
     <fileSet>
       <directory>${basedir}/src/main/sbin</directory>
       <outputDirectory>/sbin</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index f663dad8cf..235860b957 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
 
    HADOOP-7907. hadoop-tools JARs are not part of the distro. (tucu)
 
+   HADOOP-7936. There's a Hoop README in the root dir of the tarball. (tucu)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES